Who can be called and Epicurean today?
What principles, attitudes, behavior patterns, lifestyle would describe an “Epicurean” 2,300 years after Epicurus?
Can we put together a sort of catalog that describes what and “Epicurean” is in our days?
Do you know a living person whom you would describe as “Epicurean”? Why?
These are the questions I asked on Epicurus’s discussion board today:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=14509&uid=79493658728
articles on Epicurean choices and avoidances under construction
At the moment I am working on two series of short articles in simple language for the same category of non-academic non-superstitions happiness seekers:
- Epicurean choices of attitudes and actions
- Epicurean virtues implemented
My HappinessGuidance: “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness”
It seems that I have managed to make my report on the devastating effects of stress on our health and happiness technically accessible. As soon as my friend and webmaster will finish his nostalgia tour in Europe he will make it possible to order my book.
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- see the incongruities in your daily life
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- achieve harmonious relationships with friends and family
- enjoy peace, tranquility and serenity
- achieve clarity about your future
discovering your own values and developing congruent attitudes
On the road from slavery to freedom you have to discover your own individual values and develop attitudes which are congruent with your values.
Within the framework of a coaching session they guidees are guided to discover their own scales of individual values rather than blindly follow the values they inherited from their parents or copied from their peers or the examples and models presented to them by the more or less directly manipulative media.
The tool to develop congruent attitudes is the same old think-tool we have rediscovered: reflection.
We know that attitudes do not automatically result in congruent actions but they are a necessary and very important element on the way from thinking to acting. Scientific research has shown that people are ready to act in a way which is in contradiction with their attitudes if they believe that the action serves their immediate short term interests. (See in: Aronson: The Social Animal).
So the guidees are encouraged and trained to sharpen their think-tools and analyze their beliefs.
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